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24. 2023-08-25, Lazer Tag Birthday Party, Stockholm (Hero) Very hectic troop with 10 wild kids interrogating us for 30 minutes straight Loved it though! I'll add some more pics as I receive them, but we got the obligatory after-troop selfie!

OK all you awesome white armor types, I am officially back, and so DANGED happy to say that! As a few of you may know, I went through some health and personal issues over the last few months which has precluded me from being around, but thanks to lots of physical therapy and just plain refusing to give up I am back in the saddle and ready to take on the world! Although I won't be able to wear the HWT pack any longer I should be able to suit up in my regular armor within a few weeks. That being said, I signed up for a troop in Nov. so that gives me a goal to get my Stunt polished up so I can get back to putting some smiles on some faces and meet some of more of my new Squad members! My apologies for not getting back to you (yet) if you have PM'd me. I have a lot of catching up to do, so thanks for your patience! Also, a big THANKS to all those (especially Andrew, Paul, Mario, Chemi and Caleb) who went above and beyond. Now that things are back to normal I will be here 7 days a week as I have for 7 years until this setback. Please feel free to hit me up with any questions about armor or builds or just say hello. I love you guys and gals of the FISD... my second family. It's good to be back home here.

I'm 6'1" so I stretching the limits of fit. The ab plate where if curves around the right side is definitely a sharper angle than left and sticks out a little. I'm going to try trimming the return edges and adjust the strapping before I goto heat forming. It's really close to fitting right until I move then the chest pops up on the right side and the return edges catch each other keeping the chest from sliding over. Oh and I have a Blaster Factory E11 on order. Hence not in the picture. Thanks for the input folks.

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Hey Tristan, Hmmnn a sticky problem, If it was me, I would wait for the paint to fully cure and once this has happened, very carefully using a Q tip with warm water (diluted a little liquid soap) slowly rub between the lines and around them, slowly soften the glue and erase the adhesive that way. Hope fully someone on here might have first hand experience and be more help? good luck

Have you glued down the straps (yellow arrows), Chris? If not, you may have to make new ones with holes a little closer. Even though you used nylon, it still has a bit of wiggle room unless it's glued down on both sides. I think this may be what is causing the larger gap (second pic). When you get to the point you can wear your canvas belt, you can use it to tighten up that gap, but sometimes it only eliminates it toward the bottom and opens the top up even more. If you are just going for Basic or even Expert Infantry approval, that larger gap is not the biggest of deals, but if you are (hopefully ) aiming for Centurion it will need to have no gap.

Nothing! Our secret is safe for yet another day!

Getting close indeed, pardon the lack of daily update. We're focussing hard on getting it done for Sunday right now. That my chest piece popped up above the abdomen was due to the latter fitting very poorly. Tilted sideways a lot. This was corrected in the following images. Soft foam is going to be used a lot more than i had initially thought. Thanks to my posture my right hip causes a lot of issues, so we'll be padding a couple areas around the hip to hopefully prevent discomfort while wearing the kit. I am quite scared of that, as i love how this all comes together and would hate to feel uncomfy in it right off the bat. Over the last days we continued with snaps, painting of the teeth and vocoder on the helmet and making a little simulation how the eyes would look with lenses to cover it. In the third picture it is just a piece of black cloth for effect. Seeing how this shapes up more and more gives the needed boost to keep going. I continued with preparing the little belt boxes, drilling holes into them. As well as test-fitting the biceps armor thanks to a tip to align the lower part of the biceps with the end of the shoulder bells. They sit great and don't hinder me at all when moving my arm. Promptly marked where i had taped it for snap placement and got to glueing, so the E6000 gets enough time to cure. Waiting time was used to make the connecting straps of elastic and a couple more snap plates. Doubled over the elastics just to be save. White velcro was added to the shins. A bit of a finnicky job, but doable with patience to get it placed just right. Soft side towards clothing, once again to save myself trouble later on when putting it all on. Don't want the other side to catch my yoga pants and leave marks. Soft side points inwards - they are overlapping 'wrong' in the second picture on purpose. I took it seconds after placement of velcro and the packaging said to not put stress on it immediately so the adhesive can bond properly. Ear pieces and trapezoids painted and later secured with clear coat. Added snap bases for thighs and one for the chest armor on the corset, securely taped in and held together with neodym magnets while E6000 cures. Clamps used on the butt plate for snaps. Workstation during night and basement storage during day. It looks so chaotic in here... Marked and glued in snap base placements Did the belt and decided on placement for the belt boxes, finished drilling and screwing them in. Lack pictures of wip belt after initial placement.

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